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1. Feb.
[ XXXIX] THE Information we desire from your Lordships for the present is, Whether by the Words in the first of those Propositions in your Lordships Paper annexed [the respective bounds of their Dwellings] you intend the several bounds of their dwelling Houses, or the bounds of Parishes; or whether you intend an alteration of the bounds of Parishes.
In the second Proposition, What other Church-Officers your Lordships intend shall joyn with the Ministers in the Government of the Church, and what Jurisdiction they shall exercise in order to that Government, and from whom they shall derive it, and in what degree be subordinate to the power from whom they derive it; and what you in∣tend by Presbyterial Government, in your third Proposition.
In the fourth Proposition, What your Lordships intend by Congregational, Classical and Synodical Assemblies.
How Synodical Assemblies, Provincial and National shall be constituted as to Persons and Causes, and what shall be the bounds and limits of their Jurisdiction; and from whom the several Jurisdictions above mentioned shall be derived.
To these particulars we would be glad (if your Lordships think it fit) to receive satisfaction by Debate, where Questions may be asked and Replies made before any An∣swer be returned in writing, which may ask much time, and be less satisfactory: but we refer the way to your Lordships.